On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:56:27AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:35:29PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> Never mind. It was as Vincent thought. Closing all applications except > >> for Emacs makes it work. > > > > Be interesting to see what increasing swap space does. I think we > > ought to file it as an issue if that does not help: > > > > > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-dev/oom-killer-1911807.html > > I increased swap space to 12G and it compiled most of the time. It’s a > bit odd. Sometimes it would fail with > > == Compilation error on file lib/system.ex == > ** (exit) :epipe > > Other times it would get stuck compiling “lib/elixir/lib/system.ex”. > But with enough swap space it mostly compiles Elixir just fine.
I'll post it as an issue. Swap space does not always act rational ;) But they should not use so much RAM for compilation. Pj. --
